Taking a major step towards transparency in the judiciary, all judges of the Supreme Court have decided to publicly declare their assets.
The decision was taken during a full-court meeting held on April 1. A resolution was passed during the meeting, which said that judges should make a declaration of their assets to the Chief Justice of India on assuming office and whenever any acquisition of a substantial nature was made. This included declaration(s) by the CJI.
The declarations would be uploaded on the official website of the Supreme Court.
Placing the declaration of assets on the Supreme Court website would be done on a voluntary basis, it added.
The specific modalities for publishing the judges’ asset declarations would be finalised in due course.
All judges presently serving the Supreme Court have submitted their assets to CJI Sanjiv Khanna.
These include CJI Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, Justice Surya Kant, Justice Abhay S. Oka, Justice Vikram Nath, Justice JK Maheshwari, Justice BV Nagarathna, Justice MM Sundresh, Justice Bela M Trivedi, Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, Justice Jamshed Burjor Pardiwala, Justice Dipankar Datta, Justice Pankaj Mithal, Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sanjay Kumar.
The list further includes Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Justice Manoj Misra, Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice Aravind Kumar, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, Justice KV Viswanathan, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, Justice S. Venkatanarayana Bhatti, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, Justice Augustine George Masih, Justice Sandeep Mehta, Justice Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale, Justice R. Mahadevan and Justice Manmohan.
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